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Hummingbirds.net

For Students 9th - 10th
This entire website is entirely dedicated to hummingbirds. This is a great place to learn more about different hummingbird species, attracting and feeding them, migration patterns, and more.
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Minnesota Author Biographies Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides biographies for 36 past and present Minnesota authors.
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Chicago History Museum

Chicago Historical Society: History Files: Parades, Protests and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
Summary of events with photos and artifacts about the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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PBS

American Experience: Espionage and Sedition Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
As progressive a president as Woodrow Wilson was, when the U.S. joined World War I, he signed legislation that made it a crime to criticize the government. Read about the espionage and sedition acts that were passed and how they were...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Shot/online Text and Story Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
Barleby.com provides the online text version of Alexander Pushkin's short story "The Shot" plus a link to a short biography and a commentary on the story.
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Harp Week

Harp Week: The Cleveland Record

For Students 9th - 10th
Grover Cleveland's second term in office was problematic, which affected the election of 1896. Read about the economic depression of 1893, the labor unrest, Coxey's army, and controversial Supreme Court decisions that were handed down...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Oscilloscope 1897

For Students 9th - 10th
From the auto shop to the doctor's office, the oscilloscope is an important diagnostic tool. A mechanic may use an oscilloscope to measure engine function, while a medical researcher uses it to monitor heart activity.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Rhythms in Poetry: Jean Toomer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a brief biography of Jean Toomer, an African American author of poetry and short stories, published in many magazines in the early twentieth century. Click on "Jean Toomer Activities" for related materials.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: 1968: Year of Unraveling

For Students 5th - 8th
In 1968 Lyndon Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. Read about the turmoil at the Democratic National Convention, the third-party candidate, and Richard Nixon's election with a plurality of votes.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Books and Movies

For Students 5th - 8th
A look at the literature and movies written and produced in the Jazz Age. See how the writers of the age reflected the consumer society and the emptiness of middle class. Movies appealed to mass culture and millions went to the movies...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Over Here

For Students 5th - 8th
World War I was not fought by Americans just in Europe. Read about the many ways people at home helped the war effort. See how badly German-Americans were treated as anti-German passions were fueled.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Gene Shoemaker

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the first astrogeologist and discoverer of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
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Illinois Labor History Society: Gene Debs and the American Railway Union

For Students 9th - 10th
Description of the rise and fall of the American Railway Union in the context of the Pullman Strike.
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: William Howard Taft: Campaign and Election of 1908

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the presidential candidates from the Republican, Democratic, and Socialist parties in the election of 1908. See the party platforms and the reasons Taft won the election.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Carleton E. Watkins

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Carleton E. Watkins is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape photography.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Protons

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes research on the proton and the determination of the weight of proton and electron.
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Ohio State University

E History: 1912: Competing Vision for America

For Students 9th - 10th
An evaluation of the 1912 Presidential election. Shows the competing viewpoints at this time in American history and the different aspects of the 1912 election. Click on the other links to learn more about the election through political...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: Labor Battles in the Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the Homestead Strike of 1892 and the Pullman Strike of 1894 and how these ended, as well as responses of the federal government to the labor movement. Includes questions for students at end.
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Black Past

Black Past: Farrakhan, Louis Abdul

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia entry gives a brief biography of the controversial black leader, Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam. You can click on a link to a website for more information.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Tet Offensive [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War and the resulting escalation of American troops committed to the war. This led to increased American protest against the war, and President Johnson's decision not to run for re-election....
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Native & Foreign

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Digital History

Digital History: Utopian Socialism

For Students 9th - 10th
A good look at the Utopian communities that were attempted in the first half of the 19th century. They had differing reasons for their development, but their common focus was trying a unique way of communal living. Read about the Oneida...
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Pbs: Debating Scientific Racism [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the background information for both sides of the scientific racism debate.Conduct additional research and prepare your own argument supported with a poster that includes a visual representation of the data you will use to support...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Do You Remember When?

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit about is about the experience of being a young Jew in Berlin in the early 1940's. Includes real life stories and images of the personal belongings of real people.

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